Word: letting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Let's face it. It's their oil, and the OPEC nations are going to do anything they want with it. In my opinion, most citizens waste too much time and effort complaining about the oil companies and the Department of Energy, and devote too little to conservation efforts...
...again to Class AA. "My biggest thrill was when I got into a game and somebody popped the ball up behind second base. I went back for it, and all of a sudden, I heard Enos Slaughter call me off the ball. I got out of the way and let him catch it. It was thrill enough just to be called off by a guy like that...
...right, though, he can still be a terror. In a memorable display of baseball theater, Weaver last month waxed so wroth during a fight with an umpire that he literally tore up the rulebook. Recalls Weaver: "I said, 'If the rulebook doesn't mean anything, then let's just go ahead and tear it up.' And I did. Then I saw there was a chunk I missed, so I picked it up and tore...
...promoting and merchandising, and it all comes out looking like so many cans on a super-market shelf. Nevertheless, America's last three decades have fostered small but musicall potent "scenes." Eric von Schmidt is a lover of Cmabridge's own folk scene, and his 309-page book, Baby Let Me Follow You Down documents it all in words and photographs. Most would say this scene went out of existence with the last Molotov cocktail that flew through the window of the Charlesbank Trust Co. But to von Schmidt, the Cambridge folk scene survived the flames and cultural demolition which...
...Schmidt's bias gives his book its power. His knowledge and understanding--both of the folkies and their detractors--lends credibility and a certain ghostliness to his recall. Baby Let Me Follow You Down succeeds where many "rockumentary" efforts fail--these are not idle memories scribbled down for pleasant reading; they are real experiences...